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The Iron Yard

Average Rating4.42
173 Reviews
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As of July 20, 2017, The Iron Yard is no longer accepting applications. The Iron Yard is a technology education company that offers software development courses both in person, and through corporate training programs across the US. The school offers full-time and part-time immersive programs in Web Development. Beginners can choose from Web Development Basics or Interactive Web Development courses. For career changers, The Iron Yard's flagship bootcamp is the Web Deve...

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  • Anonymous
    Graduate • Front End Engineering • Charleston
    Jan 18, 2016
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    Proceed with caution

    Did I come out of the course as a front-end developer ready to dive into the tech-world? I can definitely make it look that way on paper to try and land me interviews, but the fact of the matter is this: I wanted so badly to convince myself these twelve sleepless weeks were worth it, that my final project was something creative and impressive that encompassed everything I painstakingly learned from the course, and that most importantly, I would get a return on my $12,000 investment; ...

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  • Travis Hubbad
    Travis Hubbad
    Lead Instructor • Web Development Career Path • Charleston
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    Jun 04, 2017
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    Hype over substance - insider review from student turned instructor

    I graduated from the Iron Yard in 2014, and was hired as an instructor in the fall of 2016. My experience as a student was mostly positive, though most in my cohort did not have positive outcomes. Two years later, I started working as an instructor, and I taught 2 cohorts. The company has undergone a lot of recent changes and thought it would be helpful to provide an insider's view.

    I'll begin with the positive:

    + Campuses I worked with are staffed with...

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  • Anonymous
    Front End Engineering • Charleston
    Dec 17, 2015
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    Front End

    They will teach you to code, and you'll meet some great people. BUT, I don't think the program content is worth the $12,000 price. Here's why:

    1. Many lessons involved learning from Google docs, or simply copied online FREE lessons (Code School or Code Academy, Treehouse, etc.). Many times after lecture, students spent hours going through these anyway to get more help, or a more thorough explanation. The strongest students in the class get treated like ...

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  • Anonymous
    Graduate • Front End Engineering • Houston
    Oct 20, 2015
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    Nothing but good marketing.

    Just like everyone else looking for a new career, I was sucked in by their promise of turning anyone into a highly sought after, well paid developer. I read some bad reviews but decided to try it anyways because of the few good reviews stating that the person's success was dependent solely on the amount they were willing to dedicate to learning. The Iron Yard says that anyone can attend even if they have zero experience with coding. So because of this I was expecting to be taught every...

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  • Anonymous
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    Nov 22, 2015
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    Do some research before wasting your hard earned cash !!!

    I'd advise anyone thinking about enrolling in this bootcamp course to first look up free resources on the web.  I spent over 2 and a half thousand on a Ruby on Rails course with TIY and at the end my only positive from the experience was this realisation: "Now you've blown this money, do whatever is necessary to learn this stuff on your own or elsewhere".  So please, don't make the mistake I made (unless you have tons of dosh to blow.

    No ...

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  • Anonymous
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    Sep 20, 2015
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    Don't waste your time or money

    If you can afford to take 12wks off from work, which you'd have to do to attend, then do that and use online resources to teach yourself. Don't be pulled into this scheme. This place will promise you the moon and doesn't even deliver a rock. They will blatantly lie about job opportunities when you start and by the end of the course they are scrambling to get anyone to take a second look at students. Employers aren't fooled or interested in hiring people from here ...

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  • Unimpressed
    Unimpressed
    Software Developer • Indianapolis
    Mar 25, 2016
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    ***WARNING*** Save yourself time and money!

    Let me start by saying I have a job as a developer now - but only because after my bad experience I took it upon myself to try another bootcamp and online course with CodeSchool. The way this course is sold to the applicants is that ANYBODY can do it if they put in the time, dedication, hard work, and willingness to learn. That is true for any field really but I definitely fell for that speech and joined the course. We were also told that you can go from "0 to hero" basically you don't hav...

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  • Anonymous
    Graduate • Front End Engineering • Columbia
    Dec 17, 2015
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    100% NOT worth the $10,000 they charge

    The one good thing about my experience was my instructor. He really knew his stuff and tried to help us as much as he could. In the same breath, even he had issues with The Iron Yard "Leadership"/Management. My 2 main issues with the program is that I received 0 job finding assistance and I cannot fathom a logical explanation for the cost of the class.

     

    I busted my ass everyday in class, learned the material and did my entire job search on my own. I sat ...

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  • hplm
    hplm
    Student • Front End Engineering • Greenville
    Jul 06, 2015
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    Wasn't the right choice

    The way that TIY teaches isn't concducive to learning code for me and I suspect for most people. I learned very little from the instructor. Most of what I learned was on my own or from another student. If you're going to be learning on your own anyway, it makes little sense to pay someone exhorbitant amounts of money to "teach" you.

    The style of instruction is that they go over material that's new in a very slap-dash fashion and then you're assigned home...

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  • Anonymous
    Durham
    Apr 21, 2015
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    TIY Corporate Greed Fails Students

    I would NOT recommend TIY - particularly the Durham campus. Save your money and your sanity and look elsewhere if you are truly looking to learn to code.

    Just a few of the major problems:

    1. TIY hires teachers with ZERO TEACHING EXPERIENCE even though they promise you are paying for in-person classes with someone who knows how to teach. Teaching is a complex skill in its own right and to assume that someone with industry experience won't crash and burn when struggli...

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  • Jobless
    Jobless
    Unemployed • Graduate • Web Development Career Path • Indianapolis
    Apr 04, 2017
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    4 months and no job

    It went fast, as in time flew by. Alot of my classmates are also jobless after 4 months of graduation and the school director just quit to exacerbate the issue. They do have decent wifi and the salvation army is across the street so you can have an idea of where you might be afterwards: jobless. And a huge debt to pay afterwards. Sounds kinda like what an orange guy with a red tie has been saying for the last 10 months. This is mostly negative but it is the truth for mo...

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  • Anonymous
    Graduate • Durham
    Sep 09, 2015
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    Great instructor, but 0 to dev is a lie

    I chose TIY because the advertising and the people I talked to said that I could go from having no coding experience to getting a job as a developer in 12 weeks. I did the prework that was assigned, but struggled a lot in the class. Although the instructor was very, very good, he had to go so quickly in order to cover everything that I felt behind by the second week. I complained about this several times, and now they offer more prework and a small weekend pre-course to help people start o...

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The Iron Yard Alumni Reviews Summary

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4.5
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4.3
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4.3
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